Troy Boner Affidavit

AFFIDAVIT BY TROY BONNER - NEBRASKA

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AFFIDAVIT

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Troy Boner, being first duly sworn,
and experience as follows:

REASONS FOR THIS AFFIDAVIT:

does depose and say of his own knowledge

I am making this affidavit freely and voluntarily and for the protection of
myself and my family now and in.the future; second, because it is right to do;
and finally, because I want to undo some of the damage and injury I have caused
and to help force legitimate and honest investigtions of such matters as my
brother's death, Gary Caradori's death and ALL CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING MY
ALLEGATIONS HEREIN, PARTICULARLY THE ALLEGATIONS THAT I LIED TO THE GRAND JURY
AND AT THE ALISHA OWEN TRIAL BUT THAT SUCH LIES WERE CAUSED BY OTHERS INCLUDING
PARTICULARLY THE F.B.I.' I, and my mother and family, are exhausted from living
in fear of death or injury as a result of my personal involvement in the FrankI
matters which ended up in my testifying at the Grand Jury hearings as well as
at the Alisha Owen Trial, I lied at the Grand Jury hearings and I lied at the
Alisha Owen trial. I lied when I "recanted" my original testimony to Gary
Caradori. I lied because I truly believed and still do believe that it was a
situation where I must either "...lie or die," and at the insistence primarily
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation officials who were dealing with me at
that time, specifically Mr. Mott and Mr. Culver.

The purpose of this affidavit, very simply, is to provide John De Camp the
information he requires to file an action seeking protection for me and for my
family from various individuals and the P.B.I. so that my true story can be
told without fear of death or injury to myself or my family and so that others

in a similar situation to myself can also come forward safely and tell their

Glorias which I believe will prove very clearly that', what I am sayin 1; m
affidavit is true. 1 am also certain now that only by telling the truth as
openly and publicly as X can will I ever stand a chance of providing protection
for myself and my family for the future. I Have asked John De Camp to do
whatever is necessary to seek Witness Protection, including Federal Witness
Protection if possible, for myself and my mother and my pregnant fiancee and
child-to-be. Yes, I know full well the very great risk I run by taking this
action but I and my mother and family can not go on the way we are and I can
not live with myself unless I take this action.

! will be as brief as possible in this affidavit but I will also try to answer
the questions that have to be answered in the situation I am in.

WHY JOHN DE r.M -iH TS HY ATTO RNEY FOR THIS UNDERTAKING:

I know some of the people X am accusing in this affidavit, and the legal action
accompanying it, will immediately claim that John De Camp somehow contacted me
and convinced me to take this action for his purposes. So lie has told me

The exact opposite is true. Never have I spoken with John De Camp prior to
this and he has never contacted me directly or indirectly. I bad a U u.mi or
mine contact John De. Camp several weeks ago and bring him to a meeting

ftm , my family at a secret location. At the time, John De Camp did not even

know he was coming to meet me or my family. Ue thought he was being brought to
meet a girl who needed representation on some matter. I searched him befoL
our meeting began. We both agreed-with my entire family present-tbat anything
said at the meeting could not and would not be recorded or ever used against me
or to hurt me by John De Camp if 1 did not want to go ahead with this action.

He agreed. I proceeded, along with my mother, to detail for John he Camp the

fact that I had lied; why I had no choice but to lie; and many other facts. 1

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then asked John De Camp whether he would represent me in helping to correct
matters. I told him I went to him not because I liked him or knew him but
because X felt lie was the only honest one in this entire mess who could and
would do something about my situation and who would not back down when the
going got tough and who would "stick by me thru thick and thin if I (Troy) was
telling the truth absolutely." He promised to do this so long as I told the
truth and would agree to comply with any lie detector or other truth test he OR
ANY LEGITIMATE INVESTIGATIVE OFFICIALS might ask for no matter what and so long
as I and my family were doing this action not for money damages but for our
safety and to get the truth told and myself and my mother and other kids
protected. John DeCamp also told me that he could not and would not represent
me and my family in this effort if lie, De Camp, believed that I was lying or if
he believed lie had any conflict of interest between myself and any other clients

of his, specifically Alisha Owen and Paul Bonacci. After researching and
investigating what I, Troy Boner, had told him, De Camp said he would represent
me and my family on a Pro Bono basis seeking only such compensation for
representation as a Court might provide him. He also agreed to assist m any
way he could personally in helping procure a secure and safe environment for me
and my fiancee and child-to-be and to procure such other assistance for us as
was possible thru social agencies or other groups or government agencies able
to assist me and my family. He specifically refused in advance to provide any
personal financial assistance in any way saying that he felt that would raise
questions as to the correctness of his work on this case. I have included this
information in this affidavit at his, De Camp's, request, to answer in advance

questions he said others would ask.

MY ORIGINAL STORY TO GARY CARADORI:

What I told Gary Caradori in the original taped interviews Gary had with me was
the truth. It is still the truth. From about age 1A to 17 I was seriously

involved in sexual and drug and related activities with a wide range of
individuals but primarily and specifically Alan Baer, Larry King, Robert Wadman,
Peter Citron, Eugene Mahoney, and others of prominence and wealth whom I will
identify for any legitimate investigative officials who seriously wish to
correct the problems and stop the conduct these individuals are and were engaged
in rather than cover up that conduct.

It lias been repeatedly publicly stated that my story and the stories told by
Alisha Owen, Paul Bonacci, AND A LARGE NUMBER OF OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE NOT PREVIOUSLY
IDENTIFIED WHO WERE SIMPLY INTIMIDATED FROM TALKING OR WHO WERE RIDICULED, were
a "Carefully Crafted Hoax." The stories were not a hoax. The only carefully
crafted thing that occurred was in fact the cover-up of the facts and the
subsequent conviction of Alisha Owen and the original Grand Jury Investigation.

In short, there was a carefully crafted cover-up by the very people who were
supposed to be exposing the conduct of these people rather than covering it up.
And, YES, I WAS A VERY, VERY CRITICAL ELEMENT IN THAT COVER-UP BUT THAT
PARTICIPATION BY ME WAS DONE BECAUSE OF THREAT AND PROMISE MADE TO ME PRIMARILY
FROM THE AND MR. MARK DELMAN, THE ATTORNEY ARRANGED FOR ME BY OTHERS.

1 repeat. The original story I told on taped interview to Gary Caradori was in
fact substantially the truth and substantially accurate. I say substantially
because I am sure on some points I exaggerated and on some points I did not
remember exactly the date or place or time of this or that event or particular
person or persons involved. But, specifically, the material and substantive
fac:(:s about the O) Parties that took place at Twin Towers; (2) the use of
myself and other children as DRUG COURIERS FOR ALAN BAER AND LARRY KING; (3)
the involvement of Alisha Owen at the parties and as a drug courier also and
her involvement with former Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman; (A) my relationship
with Alan Baer sexually and otherwise as well as the involvement of a number of

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other children with him; (5) Wadman's presence and participation at these
parties in question ; (6) my delivering Alisha Owen personally to Bob Wadman
several occasions; (7) my involvement sexually as a boy with Eugene Mahoney,
the former Game and Parks man; (8) Peter Citron's presence and involvement in
the parties and related sexual activities and filmings, WERE ALL TRUE, CORRECT
AND ACCURATE ON THE MATERIAL FACTS. And, contrary to what the F.B.I. and others
tried to get me to say and what I did say and in saying did lie about under
pressure and threat and promise from the F.B.I. and others, GARY CARADORI. DID
NOT INTIMIDATE, THREATEN, COACH, MAKE UP THINGS OR IN ANY WAY IMPROPERLY OR
FALSELY PORTRAY THE INFORMATION I PROVIDED HIM. HE SIMPLY ASKED ME TO TELL THE
TRUTH, NO MATTER WHAT IT WAS, AND THAT IS ESSENTIALLY WHAT I DID WITH HIM. lie
told me that was the law; that I had to report these things about Child Abuse
under the state laws. But that was the only pressure of any kind he applied.

And I know now it is the state law and all I want to do is comply with that law
without fear of me or my family being hurt or killed for having complied with

that law.

MY CONTACT WITH THE F.B.I. AND WHY I LIED AFTER THAT.CONTACTr

After telling my story to Gary Caradori, I was assured that it was most important
that EVERYTHING I KNEW BE KEPT ABSOLUTELY SECRET. That I should talk to no-one
or reveal what I had provided Caradori or the Legislative Committee. Everybody,
including Caradori and the Committee and the Feds told me this. I KNOW NOW
THAT THIS WAS THE STUPIDEST THING I COULD DO AND THAT MY FOLLOWING THEIR VERY
INSTRUCTIONS TO CONCEAL THINGS IN FACT MADE ME AND MY FAMILY SUBJECT TO AND
ViCTl S OF LATER THREATS AND INTIMIDATION. That is one of the main reasons
that I have definitely determined that I will now conceal nothing from any
legitimate investigative source--including the press. I am certain that had
the press really known what was happening and all the facts that they would
have done a far better investigation than others and would not have allowed the

cover-up to occur. I will explain later why I now believe this to be the case.

In my first contact with the F.B.I. the F.B.I. officials, particularly Hickey
Mott and Mr. Culver, made it clear to me that (l) They were ONLY interested in
DISPROVING everything I had told them; that (2) they were taking the position
that "...we know you are lying and we are only trying to figure out why and who
is your leader who is having you lie; and that (3) 11 if you will tell us you are
luting then we will let you off the hook but if you insist on sticking with the
story you told Caradori then WE will stick you in prison for a long, long time.
What you told on your tapes to Caradori can land you in prison for twenty years
each on a lot of different charges of perjury. If you insist on sticking with,
your story, YOU WILL GO DOWN.”

When the F.B.I. dealt with me, they made it clear that they had the power to
put me in prison--whether my story to Caradori was true or not--and the power
to put Caradori and others in prison including Alisha for providing the
information we did to Caradori. And they made it clear that was what they
intended to do unless I ''recanted” my original story to Caradori and the
Legislative Committee.

The F.B.I. in conjunction with my new attorney, Marc Delman, who was arranged
for me by others including particularly Frank Brown of the Television Station
in Omaha, made it crystal clear to me that my only hope of staying out of prison
was in "recanting” my original story to Gary Caradori even though my story to
Caradori was and is the truth.

To make a long story short, I was put into the following situation by the F.B.I.
and my attorney, Marc Delman, and I am confident in my own mind that they knew
exactly what they were doing although I still do not understand all the reasons
why they wanted me to lie or who they were doing this for: I HAD TO LIE TO
STAY OUT OF PRISON AND I HAD TO SAY THAT THE TRUTH WAS A LIE AND THAT THE LIES

THEY WANTED ME TO TELL WERE THE TRUTH. So. when I went-, before the Grand Jurv.

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at the insistence and instruction of Marc Delman■and the F. 11.1.> I told the
Grand Jury what the F.B.I. and Delman wanted me to tell the Grand Jury which is
that the story to Gary Caradori was a "hoax. 11 But, as stated, the exact opposite
is true.

Some time after my testimony to the Grand Jury, Gary Caradori was killed. I
have no proof but 1 do believe -he was deliberately killed. But, someone else
will have to determine this, because I acknowledge I have no information to
prove or disprove this. Immediately after Gary Caradori was killed, and BECAUSE
I DID BELIEVE HE HAD BEEN KILLED AS PART OF A COVER-IJP AND AS A RESULT OF MY
LIES TO THE GRAND JURY, I immediately called his home (from the Red Lion Hotel)
at which time I spoke to his wife Sandy and told her I had in fact lied to the
Grand Jury and that I was going to help straighten it out now. She suggested I
go to Senator Schmit and provide him that information. This I immediately did
and told Senator Schmit personally in his office that I had lied to the Grand
Jury and that what I told Gary Caradori was the truth and that X only lied out
of fear that the F.B.I. and others, particularly my attorney Marc Delman, would
hurt me or my family and particularly because they promised ine they would put
me in jail if I did not say what the FBI and Delman wanted me to say which I,
and I am sure they also knew WAS A LIE.

I also met Senator Berniece Labedz at the Caradori funeral and agreed I would
meet her and Senator Schmit for lunch immediately following the funeral at
which time we would go over my alleged "recantation" and I would provide her
and the Committee all the facts. At the funeral, however, the F.B.I, agents,
particularly Mickey Mott made it clear to me thru their actions that they knew
what I was up to and gavo mo tho claor impression that I was in "groat danger 11

if I went ahead and met with the Legislative Committee and tried to tell them
the truth. So, immediately following the funeral, I told my mother, who was
with me, that we were not going to the meeting with the Senators and I was

going to stick with my lies to the Grand Jury because of what I feared the
F.B.I. or others associated with them or whom they were protecting would do to
me or the members of my family.

Later, Senator Labedz called me and asked why 1 did not show up at the meeting.

At first I pretended like I did not know what she was talking about because by
this time I was really scared especially because of Caradori's death. Then she
said she knew I was scared. So I was honest and I remember I flat told her I
was "scared 11 and could not do anything now. She said she felt sorry for me and
that she understood.

Then, Marc Delman and Mickey Mott saw Senator Schmit say on T.V. that I had
been in his, Schmit's office, and that my "recantation" had been false. They
both called me. Even though Marc Delman knew I had been at Schmit's office and
that what Schmit was saying was the truth, he, Delman, asked me whether the
conversation had been taped or whether there was any other record of my having
been in Schmit's office to talk to Schmit. I told Delman there was no tape or
any other record I had been with Schmit & that I had not signed anything. So,
acting on Delman's instructions I publicly lied and denied any meeting or
discussion with Senator Schmit and Delman publicly did the same and suggested
Senator Schmit was lying. Delman then instructed me to deny that I was in
Schmit's office and to simply imply that Schmit was lying about all these
things. Delman's exact words to me were, "It's your word against his...as long
as there are no tapes." Mickey Mott the F.B.I. man also met again with me and
again made it clear that if I told the truth--in other’Words, if I recanted my
recantation--that I was in big trouble and would go to prison and for the first
time Mickey Mott said something I interpreted then and now to have been a direct
and personal threat that later came to pass.

When I told Mi ekev MnM- and Culver the F.B.I. neoDle one time when I was feeline

a bit cocky about their threats to me that Alan Baer and others "could not
afford" to do anything to hurt me now because too much publicity was focused on
me and that they could not afford the risk of doing .anything to me, Mott right
away told me that they probably would not do anything directly to me, that
instead "they will do something to a family member." And, of course that is
what happened shortly thereafter'after I had met with Schmit and talked to
Sandy Garadori and when the F.B.I. and Delman and Baer and others thought I
might break away from them, the F.B.I. and Delman, and tell the truth and
confirm that I had lied when I testified to the Grand Jury.

I am completely certain in my own mind, which I believe a decent and honest
investigation will show, that my brother Shawn was killed as a message to me to
stick with my lies and not.to back down because they were afraid I might back
down and tell the truth at the Alisha Owen trial. After Shawn got killed, I
had no doubt at all that they really were-as dangerous as I had originally
feared; that they would do anything and kill anybody to keep the truth contained
and to keep me lying for them; and I complied with every request they wanted me
to do or say with respect to the whole so called Franklin thing.

Before the Alisha Owen trial I was carefully rehearsed by the F.B.I. as to what
I would say and what questions would be asked and then after rehearsing everything

with the F.B.I. I was taken over to Mr. Moran the prosecutor to go thru the

Rehearsal again. I do not know whether Mr. Moran knew I was lying but for sure

the F.B.I. had to know because they were the ones who forced me to "recant" in

tiie first place and threatened me with prison if I did not. Additionally, the
F.B.I. themselves had actual pictures of me and other prominent individuals in
their possession including particularly Alan Baer (1983 picture of he and me in
very pornographic sexual acts) as well as checks from Alan Baer to me. So,
they had to absolutely know I had a relationship with him and that they were

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forcing me to lie when I denied such relationships. Additionally, the F.B.I.
had seized photos and tapes involving among others myself and a Mr. ANDREASEN
and LARRY KING. These were video tapes of a party. 'And I know from having
seen tapes at Peter Citron's house that the F.B.I. had access to tapes which
clearly documented much of the conduct and the personalities I and other kids
had identified as having occurred but which later I lied about before the Grand
Jury and again at the Alisha Owen trial when I claimed--again to satisfy the
F.B.I,--that the events never occurred. I do not know what the F.B.I. ever did
with these pictures of me and Baer, for example, BUT I KNOW THEY HAD THEM
BECAUSE I SAW THEM. So, they, the F.B.I. had to know the real truth all along
and had to know what they were doing when they forced me to LIE. I am also
sure that there are other pictures which would prove the things we kids told
Caradori. Why do I say this? Because, the one thing I remember above all else
is that these people like Baer, Mahoney, Citron, Andreasen, King, always loved
to have pictures of themselves and others, particularly the kids, in weird
sexual poses.

MY CREDIBILITY AND THE CREDIBILITY OF THE OTHER KIDS:

I know the first thing that the F.B.I. and Marc Delman and others involved in
these Franklin and related matters will say when I submit my affidavit is
something like: "You can't believe these kids and you can't believe Troy Boner
now. If he lied once, he will lie again. He's a drug addict. He's a sex
pervert. Who you going to believe, these kids with their wild stories or
respectable people like Alan Baer or the F.B.I. or Attorney Marc Delman.
Besides, these kids were as guilty or more guilty than anybody else. They were
using the drugs and they were selling their bodies and they were getting paid
well for it and they did it all voluntarily." Or something like this is what
they will say. I have heard it before. But, let me give the other side of

that story.

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Yes, we kids, from early age, sold our bodies. We became drug addicts. We got
lots and lots of money from these people. But today we are ruined because of
that. And we were turned into sex perverts and drug.addicts by these people.

In my particular case, just like a lot of other young boys, I was directly
turned into a true drug addict by Alan Baer.'■ He was the one who first taught
me to mainline and who first directly injected heroin directly into my veins--
same as he did to a lot of other boys. He was the one who made me a prisoner
of drug addiction to where he could completely control me and use me to deliver
drugs or deliver- sex or anything else. Sure, he paid me well, but he also
destroyed me in the process. It was Alan Baer who first injected me with a
"speed ball", for example. A speed ball is a heroin/cocaine mix that zips you
up immediately but brings you down mellow. And it was Marc Delman, my attorney
arranged for me by others who claimed I owed him more than $500,000.00 for work
he did protecting me, when what he really was doing was having me lie to protect
others.

But to those who really want the truth it really is all there for you to find
out if you will only check on the tilings that are available. And the truth is
the truth whether it is told by us street kids whom you may not want to believe
or the richest and most powerful people in Omaha who you think you have to
believe. Same with a lie.

So, here are some things that any honest investigator can check out to see who
is lying and who is telling the truth.

I. Marc Delman wrote my script for the program 48 hours wherein I claimed that
the entire story of myself and the other kids was a "hoax." He promised me ten
or fifteen thousand for this. I got virtually nothing. 48 hours cold me that
they had "paid my attorney." There should be records on this. I think Marc

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got: about: $3.0,500,00 for doing that. And as everyone knows, the All hours
program was played on television Just before the Alisha Owen jury began their
deliberations. Marc Dolman also claimed that: T had not: met with Senator Schmit
to tell the truth and I followed his instructions in denying it also. This
sure can ' be checked out. There were people who saw me with Schmit.

Same with my contact: with Senator La bed z.

II. I saw the picture Che F.B.I. had of me and Alan Baer. Some official sure
ought to be able to get tills picture to prove who is lying--me or the F! I.

III. Lots of kids, other than myself and Alisha ami the ones who tried to come
forward and tell the truth, know about Alan Baer, Larry King and the major drug
dealing activity they and other prominent people were involved in. But, as
long as they are scared for their lives because of whal: happened to Alisha and
me, they are not going to say anything. If an honest prosecutor would step in
and offer immunity and protection to these kids, many of them young men and
women now, I am sure the entire network of drug dealing, use of kids for sex,
and related things could be proven and corroborated to everybody's satisfaction.

IV. But, maybe the most important thing that any honest investigator should do
is to ask me, Troy Boner, or any of the other kids such as Alisha or Paul
Bonacci, to take polygraph, lie detector, tests SIDE BY SIDE ON THE SAME
QUESTIONS WITH THE PEOPLE WE ARE ACCUSING OF THESE THINGS. Example, ask Alan
Baer if he shot mainline drugs into me and if he is a major drug dealer and if
he had sex with me. Ask Eugene Mahoney if lie met me at the book store in
Council Bluffs and used to regularly pay me to have sex with him as a boy? Ask
■to' take a polygraph test on whether lie is a big-time drug
dealer,^ Ask the F.B.I. guys to take a polygraph test on whether they threatened

me with jail if 1 did not say the things they wanted me to say which tilings
were a lie. Ask Marc Delman about the 48 hours thing and the Sclimit meeting.

Obviously, either us kids are lying or the rich prominent people are lying.

And just because they are rich and prominent does not mean they are telling the
truth or because we .are thought of as scum and kids who were supposedly all
willingly involved in the drug trafficking and sexual activity does not mean we
are lying. And like it or not, if we are not worth protecting then other young
kids now and in the future will not be worth protecting either; and the prominent
and respectable citizens who took us as children and made us a part of this
drug dealing and sex abuse activity will continue without fear to do the same.
Maybe to your children next time.

I promised my mother and myself after my lying at Alisha Owen's trial caused
her to get convicted that if I ever got the chance to straighten things out I
would come forward and do it and set the record straight. I owe it to my
brother Shawn.

A couple months ago I met investigators from a British Television Broadcasting
Company. They convinced me that they honestly wanted to tell the true story no
matter what that story was.

I believed after talking with them that my and my family's safety lies in
telling everything particularly to press sources outside Nebraska and not
controlled Nebraskans. I have done this in many hours of tapes with them.

They have checked on many of the matters I told them about--not dealt with in
this affidavit--and have satisfied themselves that I am telling the truth about
my lying to the Grand Jury and to convict Alisha Owen and the reasons why I had
to lie, just as I have explained in this affidavit. The reason I mention this
is simply to establish that eliminating me or any member of my family will do

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nothing to suppress the information or keep me from reporting it because I have
already done so in many hours of tapes which have been taken outside this
country but which will be made available to Federal Authorities and legitimate
investigators here and in Washington, D.C.

But right now, I need protection for myself and my family so that I can tell
the truth totally and without fear of being punished or jailed for doing it.

That is the purpose of this affidavit. To help Mr. De Camp in filing the proper
papers to seek that protection.. Mr. De Camp has discussed with me the fact
that someone may attempt to file perjury charges against me for taking this
action at this time. X understand that. I want to repeat one final thing: I
told the truth to Gary Caradori. I tried to tell the truth to the F.B.X. and
Marc Delman but they did not want to hear the truth and the only thing they
wanted was to have me say the truth was in fact a hoax; and they scared me with
threats of jail and other things into lying to the Grand Jury and then later
into lying for them at the Alisha Owen Trial. I want to tell the truth without
fear and to help other kids who are and were in the same situation as I am and
was. That is the reason I am doing this.

STATE OF NEBRASKA
COUNTY OF DOUGLAS

BEFORE ME A NOTARY - PUBLIC ON THIS ^day of October, 1993, PERSONALLY APPEARED
TROY BONER,-TO ME PERSONALLY KNOWN, WHO'EXECUTED THE ABOVE AFFIDAVIT, AFFIRMED
THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THE STATEMENTS MADE THEREIN, AFFIRMED THAT HE WAS VOLUNTARILY
AND WILLINGLY SIGNING THE AFFIDAVIT AND DOING IT FOR THE PURPOSES STATED THEREIN.